Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

The President to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)2

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Number 76. Top Secret and Personal from the President to Ambassador Harriman.

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Will you please deliver the following message to Marshal Stalin at once:

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You will, by this time, have received from General Deane, the statement of our Combined Chiefs of Staff position relative to the war against Japan3 and I want to reiterate to you how completely I accept the assurances which you have given us on this point. Our three countries are waging a successful war against Germany and we can surely join together with no less success in crushing a nation that I am sure in my heart is as great an enemy of Russia as she is of ours.

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Roosevelt
  1. Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels. For the full text of the message, see ante, pp. 67.
  2. The President evidently was referring to the Joint Chiefs of Staff position alluded to infra.